Plants used for curdling of milk practiced by kollimalayalis, the tribes of kolli, hills, Salem District, Tamil Nadu are discussed.

Many peer-to-peer (P2P) applications benefit from node specialisation. For example, the use of supernodes, the semantic clustering of media files or the distribution of different computing tasks among nodes. We describe simulation experiments with a simple selfish re-wiring protocol (SLAC) that can spontaneously self-organise networks into internally specialized groups (or “tribes”). Peers with...

One hundred fifty years ago, Joel Palmer, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory, and Isaac I. Stevens, as Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Washington Territory, negotiated a series of treaties with tribes of the Pacific Northwest. These 10 instruments have affected the gathering rights of tribes and of others in this area and throughout the United Stat...

The paper presents a novel particle swarm optimizer (PSO), called gender-hierarchy particle swarm optimizer based on punishment (GH-PSO). In the proposed algorithm, the social part and recognition part of PSO both are modified in order to accelerate the convergence and improve the accuracy of the optimal solution. Especially, a novel recognition approach, called general recognition, is presente...

The Annals of the Frankish kingdom, under the year 818, contain a description of the arrival of legations of certain Abodrits, Guduskans and Timo~ans at the Frankish court in Heristal. This paper is devoted to an attempt at the further identification of these tribes and their habitats. It mainly discusses the possibility that the Timo~ans and Abodrits should be recognized as two of the so-calle...

In this paper, a novel intelligent optimization algorithm Artificial Tribe Algorithm (ATA) is presented based on the analyses of the principle and uniform framework of the Bionic Intelligent Optimization Algorithms (BIOA). ATA simulates the existent skills of the natural tribes, and actualizes the optimization purpose through the propagation and migration behaviors of the tribes. The main facto...

In 18 Native American tribes, suicide rates were positively associated with acculturation stress and negatively with traditional integration.